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Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes Audio CD

A fair review of the Iced Earth "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Iced Earth reviews here, or go back to the Iced Earth tabs.

Iced Earth Band: Iced Earth
Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Burning Times 2: Melancholy (Holy Martyr) 3: Disciples of the Lie 4: Watching Over Me 5: Stand Alone 6: Consequences 7: My Own Savior 8: Reaping Stone 9: 1776 [Instrumental] 10: Blessed Are You 11: Prophecy 12: Birth of the Wicked 13: Coming Curse 14: Shooting Star [*] 15: Electric Funeral [*] 16: Ripper [*]

Their Best Effort, PERIOD!!
While most of their stuff is solid (except for Glorious Burden), Something Wicked is simply the best. This is without a doubt the best Iced Earth offering. From the first track to the closing trilogy, Schaeffer and co. get after it and deliver a metal classic! The remastered version simply adds to the experience! Get this CD!!!.


Metallica this is NOT
The reviewer named several reputable metal bands. I purchased this CD based on the other review of this album. I like Metallica quite alot and Iron Maiden to a lesser extent. However, this album if representative of Iced Earth, is not on par with either Iron Maiden or Metallica. I didn't find one song that I would listen to again. Keep in mind that I'm more a main-stream metal listener and less likely to pickup an obscure band and enjoy unpolished screaming. There are some very good musical tracks that would be much better with a polished voicetrack. In my humble opinion this is what separates Metallica and even Iron Maiden to a lesser extent from the others. .


I expected it to be good, but it was absolutely awesome!
It was too expensive until this re-release showed up. I've been meaning to buy this album for a while just because of the first track, Burning Times.

First, Burning Times and Melancholy (Holy Martyr) are two of the best songs I've ever heard. They're up there with Master of Puppets by Metallica, The Sentinel by Judas Priest, and Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden (in my book). The whole album is very good, though. It lags a bit in the middle, but it finished incredibly strong with The Prophesy, Birth of the Wicked and The Coming Curse.

This version also features some good covers of Judas Priest's The Ripper and Black Sabbath's Electric Funeral. The packaging is basically just like a vinyl album package. It's a folding cardboard sleeve with two pockets-one for a booklet and another for the disk (which is in another smaller sleeve). The disk is a black-surface CD that looks like a tiny vinyl album.

Oh, my XBOX 360 doesn't recognize the disk, but my computer can read it just fine. Normal CD players shouldn't have any issue. I think that the black reflective surface is the reason.


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